Unless you’ve been under a rock the past couple of months or so, you’ve probably noticed the “It Gets Better Project” and all the other media hoopla surrounding anti-gay bullying. Hopefully though, you, like other brave souls, have seen this for what it truly is: obvious liberal homophobia. Clearly these gay rights activists actually hate gays because they believe homosexuals incapable of standing up for themselves. It’s just like all of those civil rights idiots who hate blacks and want to coddle them. Unfortunately, this kind of rank, left-wing bigotry has existed as far back as wings themselves as proven by recent translations of texts from ancient Egypt. Continue reading →

I have to give Meg some props here. Even though she said “Ewww!”, she did kill the roach herself. Several years ago, I had a girlfriend who made me drive 2 hours to the City so I could kill a roach that she had trapped under a glass. To be fair, the thing was the size of a Rottweiler puppy, but it was also missing a bunch of legs.

Now, killing is second nature to Meghan, putting her even more squarely in the “Cool Chick” category, the kind of girl that every guy wants to have a beer with, then have breakfast with.

My favorite Meg quote (aside from her perceptive take on our Meg story) was this 2-Tweet decimation of her conservative critics:

I love people that tell me “I’m doing damage to the GOP”, yeah cause Donald Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, Sen. Ensign, Gov Sanford and the entire Bush administration have nothing to do with the GOP’s problems, no…it’s my 5″1 ass in a pushup bra thats the real problem with the GOP… about 19 hours agofrom web

At least now, he’ll know who to call if he needs some exterminating done for him.

Other highlights this week include her run-in with an unhinged taxi driver, smackdown of a jerky Twitter troll, and coinage of a great Battlestar Galactica-related catch phrase. What I’m saying is, you’re missing out on a full life if you don’t follow Meg’s Twitter feed.

Update: Just got off of the conference call with Director of the Office of Personnel Management John Berry. Unfortunately, I didn’t get a question in, but I can say that the press, as a whole, are very unimpressed with this move. I expect there will be a lot of negative press on this. The tone of the questioning was uniformly skeptical.

On the other hand, Berry did stress, repeatedly, that this memo’s reach is restricted by DOMA. It almost seemed as though Berry was saying that this very weak tea is designed to whet the public appetite for a DOMA repeal. If so, the administration’s defense of DOMA is that much more mystifying.

Berry also tried to pretend that a Presidential memo is the same as an executive order, but was called on it. The memo expires with the President’s term. He again stressed the need for a more permanent, legislative solution in response.

Another reporter pointed out that most, if not all, of the benefits in this memo are already available to at least some federal employees. Berry responded that this action removes such decisions from the individual supervisor’s discretion.

The White House has just released a fact sheet regarding the Presidential Memorandum to be signed later today. While any progress against discrimination is welcome, this seems like a poorly-timed half-measure.

The benefits outlined in the fact sheet aren’t going to impress anyone, and coming, as they do, when President Obama is under fire from the LGBTQ community and its allies, I predict very loud shrugging in response. If you can’t afford a dozen roses, maybe you ought to skip the dandelions.

A press conference call is scheduled for 3 pm. I should have more to say about this then. Here is the full text of the fact sheet:Continue reading →

It was pretty meaningless to hear Meghan McCain urge her Republican Party to come around on gay marriage. It seemed a bit more important when Steve Schmidt, John McCain’s campaign manager, gave the GOP the same advice.

But in terms of influence in Republican politics, Dick Cheney is on another level.

While their point is that Cheney carries more political weight, their swipe at Meg was gratuitous and inaccurate. Meg has done more than most to publicize marriage equality, and not in the ugly, Perez Hilton way. To call her meaningless, or all of the other non-Dick people who work hard to achieve equality for everyone, is just wrong.

So, when Meg pointed this out on her Twitter feed, here’s the response she got from Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas:

Before I comment further, and before I get to Meghan McCain’s statement on this feud, let me lay out the rest of the Twitter conversation for you, in chronological order: Continue reading →

The California Supreme Court’s ruling has created a new, lower class for its gay citizens to occupy. 1st class is for teh straightz! Lotsa legroom and right to get married, plus a velvety sleep mask. 2nd class are the 18,000 gay couples who lucked out and got married before the passage of Prop 8. They get a bag of peanuts and a TV to share with the whole row.

Then, there are the 3rd class, teh regular gays, who get stuffed in the luggage compartment.

In all seriousness, I do wonder if a mini-martyr-movement will spring up, with married LGBTQ people burning their marriage certificates in solidarity with their unmarried brethren and sethren. Maybe, or maybe just burning a symbolic copy.